I'm Emma Kate. I've been a decorative painter for 25 years and now I'm trying my hand at DIY. I live in a picturesque market town in Hertfordshire, England. I have a passion for upcycling vintage furniture, home decor and secondhand shopping.

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Sunday, 16 December 2012

Finally...

...the floors are done! The furniture is back, the tree is up and there's not a pot hole in sight.

What a difference it makes! The house is so much lighter and brighter. All the skirting still needs painting but that can wait... I was in a hurry to get the decorations up. I hope you're not all Christmassed out already because there are LOTS of pictures in this post!

Our tree complete with vintage red-head fairy...

Decorations galore...

Old and new...

...but mostly old!

From special friends...

and I think this is my favourite bauble this year...

along with the fairy my daughter 'made' in playgroup...

The stockings are up...

Obviously mine is the biggest!

I found a use for the vintage print tray and had more than enough vintage Christmas tat to fill it!

And made use of the old crate for bauble overspill...

Decorations continue up the stairs...

And in the hallway...

and lest we forget what it's all about...

But this one is going to make you all so jealous! My creative daughter was desperate for some card which I duly provided, and she came up with this!

No we're not sure what it is either, but lucky me! I shall be expected to get this out every year! (Why didn't I give her nice white craft card??!)

30 comments:

How fab does your floor look now, well worth all the hard work wasnt it?! I love your decorations too and think the way of displaying the overspill is brilliant! And yes, the childrens handmade ones will always win me over everytime!

Thanks! That fireplace (stone) was a £30 ebay score! Seriously! I wrote asking if it was 'real' stone or just lookielikey stone and then couldn't wait for his reply so I bought it. Luckily it was real! Best ebay find ever!

Your floor looks fabulous, well worth the wait. And the dresser is beautiful and I am loving the old decorations all be it some of them do freak me out a little with their little beady eyes and faces! lol.

The old printers block and old crate is a brilliant way to display the spill over of decorations of which I have a few and was running out of ways to display them until now :) Are all the little cottages in the printers block wooden as they are simply amazing?

We also have a couple of handmade by our 3yr old decorations that are our favourites out of all our decorations and are going to get them to make a new decoration every year to add... must remember to give them good craft supplies to start with..lol

Thanks Rebecca, yes they're all wooden. We have lots of them, some vintage and some modern. Constance makes a town on the windowsill every Christmas but I pinched a few houses as they fit nicely in my print tray! xx

Hi Emma - love your treasure trove of vintage Christmas ornaments. I especially love your nativity set. I swear we had the exact same one when I was a child growing up in Toronto. Is your set old, passed down in the family or available still from somewhere? I hate the plastic ones I see now. Have a lovely Christmas with the family. Patty/BC

New floor looks great. And although I'm not a great one for lots and lots of little ornaments, I absolutely LOVE the wooden box full of different little treasures, I'm secretly a bit jealous of it, actually - and would rather like one of my own!!

Oh! Lovely Christmas ornaments! I'm a fan of vintage ones too. This last Chrstimas I went to my mother's house and brought with me all the ornaments we had when I was a child, such memories...Another coincidence, I made a Christmas Printer Tray too and I find yours really lovely! I leave the link here.